Myrsine stolonifera (Koidz.) E. Walker

Shrubs ca. 2 m tall. Branchlets terete, 1-1.5(-2) mm in diam., glabrous. Petiole canaliculate, 5-8 mm; leaf blade elliptic or lanceolate, 6-8(-10) × 1.5-2.5(-3) cm, papery or subleathery, glabrous, base cuneate, margin entire or sometimes with 1 or 2 pairs of teeth beyond middle, punctate, apex acuminate; lateral veins inconspicuous, densely and minutely areolate, marginal vein absent. Inflorescences axillary or on leafless branchlets, umbellate or fascicled, sessile, 3- or 4-flowered; bracts hastate or lanceolate, glabrous. Flowers 5-merous, 1.8-2 mm. Pedicel 2-3 mm, glabrous, subtended by 1 bract. Calyx lobes spreading, nearly free, narrowly elliptic or oblong, 0.8-1 mm, flat, glabrous, prominently punctate, apex acute or obtuse. Petals united into a very short tube, glabrous outside, densely glandular granulose inside except for tube; lobes oblong, punctate, apex obtuse. Stamens ca. 1/2 as long as petals; filaments free, adnate to base of petals; anthers broadly ovate or reniform, apex apiculate. Ovary glabrous, punctate. Stigma apiculate or lobed. Fruit red becoming bluish black, globose, ca. 5 mm in diam., glabrous. Fl. Apr-Jun, fr. Dec-Jan.

Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Taiwan, Yunnan, Zhejiang [Japan].

Mixed forests, damp places; 300-2100 m.

Anamtia stolonifera Koidzumi, Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 37: 40. 1923; A. marginata Masamune; A. mezii Masamune; Myrsine marginata Mez (1902), not Hooker & Arnott (1834); Rapanea stolonifera (Koidzumi) Nakai.

Myrsine stolonifera là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Anh thảo. Loài này được (Koidz.) E. Walker mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1940.

光叶铁仔（学名：Myrsine stolonifera）为紫金牛科铁仔属下的一个种。